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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Petals Book Launch with Rebekah Roberts

My publishing house, 5 Prince Publishing, is launching its latest book Petals, by Rebekah Roberts today! We are very excited. Join us today, leave a comment, and you could win a $10 Amazon gift card!

“Beauty
might just be the beast.”’

Calla
Williams is not like other girls. Most girls spend their whole lives
trying to be beautiful, Calla already is…and she hates it.

When
she is shipped off one summer to live with family friends in their dilapidated
Mississippi plantation, Calla is faced with the prospect of living with
strangers and their teenage son. This is annoying because, like any other
boy, he is sure to fall in love with her on sight. However, Griffin Davenport
is not your typical teenage guy. With his hot temper and half of his face
severely scarred, “hate at first sight” is closer to what she finds.

Though
the two teens try to stay out of each other’s way, an odd attraction to each
other makes staying away anything but easy.

Now,
Calla must deal with growing feelings, her own prejudices, and finding the
secret to Griffin’s past. As hate turns to friendship and friendship becomes
something more, Calla learns a startling truth: God uses even how we look in
His plan for our lives.

An Excerpt from Petals, by Rebekah Roberts

He wondered what time it
was. With the bandages over his face, it was hard to know anything, even
whether it was day or night. He sat rigid and uncomfortable. More than the
cloth was suffocating him; the darkness was unbearable. His hands itched to rip
the bandages off his face, but he resisted the urge, choosing to clench his
hands until his fingers ached.

The door creaked open,
and he heard footsteps coming into his hospital room.

“Honey?” The soothing
sound of his mother’s voice filtered through to his ears. “Are you awake?”

He tried to answer, but
it came out as more of a muffled grunt than words.

“The doctor’s here. It’s
time.”

The corners of his mouth
rubbed on the cloth as he smiled. She meant it was time to take the bandages
off.

Moments later, he could
feel the presence of the doctor close by and felt hands begin to remove the
binding from his face. Slowly they unwound the bandages, going round and round
his head. His arms shook with tension as he gripped the bed sheets in his
fists.

Light began to show
through the last few layers, and then he could finally see. The world seemed to
spin around him, and he blinked rapidly in an attempt to focus. When everything
was still, he saw his mother, with her bright red hair and smiling face; and she
had tears in her eyes.

“It looks like the
infection is completely gone,” the woman, whom he assumed was his doctor, said.
“I think he’s healing nicely.”

A nurse, who was
standing beside the doctor, nodded as a strained smile crossed her face. He
couldn’t help but notice how pretty she was.

“I want to see,” he
said, sitting up straighter in his hospital bed.

“Sweetie, you might need
to wait and eat something first,” his mother said, putting a hand on his
shoulder.

“I think he should know
now. It’s not going to get much better,” the doctor said. There was something
ominous about her voice.

The nurse handed him a
mirror. Looking into it, he did not see the familiar face of six months before.
Instead, a twisted mockery of his former self glared back at him. A thick lump
formed in the pit of his stomach, and he thought it might come up.

He looked at the women
around him. Their pity-filled stares bored into him, especially the nurse’s.

“All of you get out,” he
said in a harsh whisper.

“Honey, please. It’s
not-”

“Get out!” He threw the
mirror across the room. It shattered as it hit the floor. He dug his
fingernails into the rough, uneven surface of his face and let out something
close to a growl.

His mother reached for
him, trying to stop him from hurting himself. He pushed her away. They all
crowded around him, grabbing his hands, wrenching his wrists.

“Please…” he whispered,
not fighting back anymore. He hung his head, trying to hide his face. “I just
want to be alone.”

Purchase Petals here: (As the links become live with will change them, but please keep checking back)

Rebekah Roberts’ obsession with
fairytales, romance, and Jesus came at an early age. She knew as a young teen
that she wanted to write books for girls that were both fun to read and good
for them.

While working as a nanny and
volunteering in her church’s youth group, Rebekah continues her mission to
write wholesome romances and uses fiction as a platform for The Unfolding Rose
Ministries; where she helps to promote true beauty and self confidence in
girls.

Rebekah was homeschooled through
high school. She continued her education at Moore Norman Technology,
where she studied creative writing. She uses her education to instill a love of
the craft in the next generation through teaching writing classes.

Growing up in small town
Oklahoma, she loves the old south and history, which finds its way into her
writing and everyday conversation with dreams of plantation houses, WWII
dances, and Victorian trivia. She has a passion for taking an old story and
making it new.

When she is not writing or
working with youth, she loves to watch sci-fi movies with family or enjoy a pot
of tea with good friends.

Contest: Please leave a comment for the author. One winner will be randomly drawn for the $10 Amazon gift card. This contest is sponsored by 5 Prince Publishing and Books, LLC. The prize and/or denomination can not be changed. Winner will need to leave contact information or check back in with the site to contact Bernadette Marie to receive their prize. Entries after 11:59pm MT on 6/27/12 are not eligible.

11 comments:

Okay, I am seriously caught up in that scene. I love the twist on the 'beauty and the beast' them, and could see how my daughter (age 15) would be interested in reading this book. Congrats to you, Rebekah and good luck!!